Device for filling silos.



PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

W. W. BATEMAN.

DEVICE FOR FILLING SILOS.

' APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18. 1907.

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:L in .llJ A AL it WILLIAM WESLEY llAlliMA'N, Ul BUUXVILLE, INDIANA.

Application filed November 18, 1907. Serial No. 102.69%.

To all 'UF/IU'I/t it may concern:

Be it known that l, 'Vnuan Wnsmn' Bvrmmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boonville, in the county of Warrick and State of lndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Filling Silos, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the feed through the pipe by means of a blast of air and havin at its upperend a ret urned bend which opensanto the top of the sdo so as to discharge the feed therein. ll hen such an apparatus is employed it necessary for several men to be within the silo and spread the feed out evenly and pack it down.

The object of the invention is to provide upon the supply pipe means whereby the feed may be director to any particular part of the silo and thus spread out evenly and at the same time employ the blast of air for ackin'g the same. 1

\Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of )arts hereinafter described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section through a silo illustrating the use of my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of two of the sections of my improved flexible discharge. pipe; and Fig. ills a perspective view of the same.

In thcdrawingsl denotes a silo, 2 the feed supply ipe having at its upper end a re turned fflHl 3 to projeet over the to of the wall of the silo and to discharoe the feed therein. The lower end of the reed pipe .2

.is adapted to be connected to a suitable mechanism (not illustrated) for forcing the feed through the pipe by means of a blast of air.

4 denotes a flexible discharge pipe. composed of a plurality of detachably connected sections 'lhcse sections 5 tapered longitudinally so that they are of l'rusto-conical form to permit their small end to telescope into the large cud of the adjacent section. The taper of these sections is slight so that they lit each other sulliciently close Specification of Letters Patent.

are preferahiy I DEVICE FOR FILLING SILCS.

Patented July 7, 1908.

to prevent the escape of the feed between them and at the same time render the pipe -l sulhcicntly llexiblc to permit its lower end to be moved in any direction so that the feed may be directed to any part of the silo. The sections are dctachably connected together and prevented from telescoping each other beyond a Pl'ttltltl'llllllttl extent by providing snap hooks or similar devices (5 upon the large end of each sectionaiid rings or eyes 7 arranged it )Ull the small end and adapted to be engagei by the snap hooks. The rings 7 are loosely or pivotally connected by straps 8 and the books i) are llcxibly connected by similar straps t) and rings or link H) as clearly shown in l igs. 2 and 3. Two or more of these detachable connections are prcfcrably provided between each two sections and are arranged at opposite points or at equal distances apart. so that the sections will be held in proper alinement with each other. it will he noted that said connections not only dctachably unite the sections but also limit the tclcsco )ing movement of one with res )cct to the otlicr.

fn using the invention a sullicient number of the sections 5 are connected together so that when the uppermost one is attached to the end 3 of the supply iipe 2 the lowermost one ill be disposed adpiccnt to the bottom of the silo. .\s the latter is lillcd the lower set-lions of the discharge pipc are successively detached so that the discharge pipe mav always be of such length that its lower end may be moved over the body of feed in the silo to direct the blast of air and the feed which it carries to any part of such body. By providing a llcxiblc discharge pipeof this character it will be seen that one man may easily distribute the feed evenly and at the same time pack the same.

While l. have shown and described the )refcrrcd em hodiment of my invention 1 wisih it understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction set forth since various changes in the form, )roportion amtmmor details may be resorted to without departing from the s )lIll/ or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

llaving thus described my invention what i claim is:

discharge conductor, comprising a pinrality of tapered cylindrical sections having their ends-tclcscoped, straps secured at 0 posite points adjacent to one end of eaci of said sections, loops or eyes pivoted 111 'said straps, similar stra s secured at opposite points adjacent to t e other end of each of said sections and snap hooks loosely con-'- nected to the lastmentioned straps and 5 adapted to engage the loops or eyes to de vtaehably unite said sections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afijx my signature in the presence of two Witnesses. WILLIAM WESLEY BATEMAN.

Witnesses: I GEO. W. RUDOLPH, W. J. BATEMAN. 

